Strip Search is Sexual Assault. On a 12-year-old, It's Damn Near Rape.

The reason excuse for doing it is irrelevant.  It's inexcusable.  Especially since it was probably committed on a non-conforming child for the express purpose of intimidating her into obedience.  No doubt the school officials got sexually aroused by it.

From the Herald:

The father of a 12-year-old girl on Thursday filed a federal lawsuit against the Clark County Public Schools board alleging her rights were violated when she was strip-searched at school.

The girl, only identified in the lawsuit as “K.K.” , was called to the counseling office at Roy D. Campbell Junior High School in Winchester in October. She was asked to” strip down to her underwear” and searched by counselor Becca Boyd and assistant principal Kris Creteau, the lawsuit said.

The lawsuit does not say why the girl was searched. 

It alleges that the school board had not adequately trained the employees on investigating students and the legal rights of children. It said that Boyd and Creteau severely “frightened, alarmed and humiliated” the girl and as a direct result, she suffered emotional anguish.

The lawsuit said the girl’s constitutional rights were violated when she was subjected to arbitrary action, unreasonable search and deliberate indifference for her civil rights. It alleges that Boyd and Creteau are liable, “under state law, for invasion of privacy, assault, negligence , and intentional infliction of emotional distress.”

The child’s father is seeking compensatory and punitive damages in an unspecified amount sufficient to deter the Clark employees and other school officials from engaging in unconstitutional conduct, the suit says.

Clark County Schools officials did not immediately comment.

Strip-searched for Drinking Beer

Note that no one involved in this blatant case of state-sanctioned sexual abuse of two children has been fired, much less arrested, charged, convicted and imprisoned.

Apparently that's because the guards were following orders, their supervisors didn't know what the guards were doing, state officials didn't know what the policy was and the department commissioner has been allowed to retire.

As a Kentucky taxpayer, I sincerely hope the parents of these molested teens take the state for millions.

Jennifer Hewlett at the Herald:

A federal judge has ruled that a Kentucky juvenile detention center's screening of two Perry County teen half-siblings while they were naked was unconstitutional under the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which guards against unreasonable search and seizure.

U.S. Senior District Judge Karl S. Forester made the ruling June 14 in a 23-page document that also addresses other legal issues in the case, which stems from the intake screenings of the two juveniles at the Breathitt Regional Juvenile Detention Center in 2009. The teens were jailed after being charged with underage drinking, charges that were later dismissed.

The parents of the Perry County teens filed suit against the two jail guards who conducted the screenings, Mitchell Gabbard and Rebecca Harvey; Breathitt detention center director Gary Sewell, superintendent Gary Drake and assistant superintendent Jeff Voyles; then-Kentucky Department of Juvenile Justice commissioner J. Ronald Haws; and then-deputy state juvenile justice commissioner A. Hasan Davis.

The two were arrested for "public intoxication," a ridiculous charge that cops use as an excuse to grab and intimidate anyone they don't like.

At the very least, I hope this disabuses everyone of the notion that juvenile detention facilities are "kiddie jails." They are full-fledged prisons, complete with locked-down, windowless, solitary-confinement cells; mandatory silence and sexually predatious staff.

Vicious "Prank" Case Ends With Settlement

It sounds like one of those junior-high-school tall tales like the serial killer with the hook hand stalking the parked couple. Scary but cautionary tales meant to teach a lesson but not be believed.

Unfortunately, this one really happened, just outside Louisville.

With both sides unwilling to take their chances on an appeal, McDonald’s and strip-search victim Louise Ogborn have settled the lawsuit in which a jury awarded her $6.1 million.

The company Friday withdrew a petition in which it was asking the Kentucky Supreme Court to hear the case.

The Kentucky Court of Appeals in November upheld the award, which included $5 million in punitive damages, saying the company was “fully aware” of hoax calls to its restaurants, yet its management made “a conscious decision not to train or warn employees or managers about the calls.”

SNIP

The Court of Appeals said the punitive damages were justified because the evidence at a four week trial in Bullitt County in 2007 showed the company repeatedly “placed a higher value on corporate reputation than on the safety of its own employees” over the 10 years it knew about the hoax calls.

The company claimed that Ogborn was a victim of a “malicious hoax by individuals not representing McDonald's."

Ogborn, then 18, was methodically searched and forced to strip after a man pretending to be a police officer called the Mount Washington McDonald's on April 9, 2004, and accused her of stealing a customer's purse.

Following the caller's instructions, an assistant manager took away her clothes, cell phone and other belongings, and later called in her fiancé, who, following orders from the caller, forced Ogborn to perform a series of humiliating tasks, conducted a cavity search of her body and ultimately sexually abused her. Ogborn's ordeal lasted for three hours, until a maintenance worker and other employees realized the caller was a fraud.

David Stewart, a former prison guard from the Florida Panhandle who was accused of making the call, was acquitted on charges of impersonating an officer and soliciting sexual assault. Law-enforcement officers said at the time that they suspected him of making the other calls as well, but he was only charged in Bullitt County.

If you've got a strong constitution, here are the details of the "prank."